AMD Radeon Vega 10 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 10 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Vega 10

NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 10

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1567 vs 581
Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 369 vs 214

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 October 2017 vs 1 July 2014
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1567 vs 581
PassMark - G2D Mark	369 vs 214

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

Around 67% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 27% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 11927 vs 9383

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	11927 vs 9383

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 10
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1567

581

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

369

214

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

9383

11927

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 10	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
PassMark - G3D Mark	1567	581
PassMark - G2D Mark	369	214
Geekbench - OpenCL	9383	11927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.526
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	357.982
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.218
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	37.275
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	155.274
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3402
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3235
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3082
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3402
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3235
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	797

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 10	NVIDIA GeForce GT 720A
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Fermi 2.0
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GF117
Launch date	26 October 2017	1 July 2014
Place in performance rating	943	944
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1400 MHz
Core clock speed		938 MHz
Floating-point performance		360.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology		28 nm
Pipelines		96
Texture fill rate		15.01 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		33 Watt
Transistor count		585 million
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL		4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth		16 GB / s
Memory bus width		64 Bit
Memory type		DDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 2.0 x16